Those who tend toward biblical literalism sometimes express concern for Paul's presentation of himself as a father of the church, a concern that carries over to using the word "father" in other religious contexts as well.

Defenders of Darwinian theory present the conflict between unguided evolution and intelligent design as if it had not advanced one bit since Clarence Darrow jousted with William Jennings Bryan over Biblical literalism before a courthouse crowd in 1925.

Charles Moseley's evocative essay about how medieval people saw and related to the Bible and the Book of Nature ends quite sadly: 'we are on the outside, looking in, and all we can do is write essays about it' (194) But part of the success of this volume is to make us aware of relations between the scriptures and the human imagination of great richness that make our current choice between literalism and liberalism in exegesis seem all the poorer.

He discusses the holy marriage, relevance theory and translation, syntax in Luke 1:1-4, when a priest is not a priest, still looking for clues, repetitive texture and four kinds of literalism, and the experimental translation.

The general theme of the book is that the advocates of strict textual literalism, identified as "Atharis," opposed the rationalism involved in theology ('ilm al-kalam) and were victorious by the fifteenth century.

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